Guild Wars 2

I had a Golden Lotus amulet with magic find and an utility magical infusion. I spent 50 laurels for this and now that magic find is removed it is worthless. I can only transmute it to another amulet with an utility infusion which is also soulbound. Why would I need another soulbound item on the same character and why would I waste the infusion slot for utility now? Can I get my 50 laurels back instead?

I think this is not the right place to post this. The infusion still is available. So these are the two things that can be going on
a: the infusion still works and gives you extra magic find in the attribute window. You can check yourself or ask help in the players helping players section.
b: The infusion doesn’t work but they forgot to let you change it for free. In that case I would advise you to start a thread in the bug section.

Looking at the way they solved the other magic find items you are likely not getting a laurel refund.